what documents made up the Christian and Catholic bible,what documents were left out,why?

Answer 1

The New Testament canon of the Catholic Bible and the Protestant Bible are the same with 27 Books.

The difference in the Old Testaments actually goes back to the time before and during Christ’s life. At this time, there was no official Jewish canon of scripture.

The Jews in Egypt translated their choices of the Hebrew Scriptures into Greek in the second century before Christ. This translation of 46 books, called the Septuagint, had wide use in the Roman world because most Jews lived far from Palestine in Greek cities. Many of these Jews spoke only Greek.

The early Christian Church was born into this world. The Church, with its bilingual Jews and more and more Greek-speaking Gentiles, used the books of the Septuagint as its Bible. Remember the early Christians were just writing the documents what would become the New Testament.

After the destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, with increasing persecution from the Romans and competition from the fledgling Christian Church, the Jewish leaders came together and declared its official canon of Scripture, eliminating seven books from the Septuagint.

The books removed were Tobit, Judith, 1 Maccabees, 2 Maccabees, Wisdom (of Solomon), Sirach, and Baruch. Parts of existing books were also removed including Psalm 151 (from Psalms), parts of the Book of Esther, Susanna (from Daniel as chapter 13), and Bel and the Dragon (from Daniel as chapter 14).

The Christian Church did not follow suit but kept all the books in the Septuagint. 46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

1500 years later, Protestants decided to keep the Catholic New Testament but change its Old Testament from the Catholic canon to the Jewish canon.

The books that were removed supported such things as
+ Prayers for the dead (Tobit 12:12; 2 Maccabees 12:39-45)
+ Purgatory (Wisdom 3:1-7)
+ Intercession of saints in heaven (2 Maccabees 15:14)
+ Intercession of angels (Tobit 12:12-15)

The books they dropped are sometimes called the Apocrypha.

Here is a list of the books in the Catholic Bible:

Old Testament = 46 Books

1. Genesis
2. Exodus
3. Leviticus
4. Numbers
5. Deuteronomy
6. Joshua
7. Judges
8. Ruth
9. 1 Samuel
10. 2 Samuel
11. 1 Kings
12. 2 Kings
13. 1 Chronicles
14. 2 Chronicles
15. Ezra
16. Nehemiah
17. Tobit
18. Judith
19. Esther
20. 1 Maccabees
21. 2 Maccabees
22. Job
23. Psalms
24. Proverbs
25. Ecclesiastes
26. Song of Songs
27. Wisdom
28. Sirach
29. Isaiah
30. Jeremiah
31. Lamentations
32. Baruch
33. Ezekiel
34. Daniel
35. Hosea
36. Joel
37. Amos
38. Obadiah
39. Jonah
40. Micah
41. Nahum
42. Habakkuk
43. Zephaniah
44. Haggai
45. Zechariah
46. Malachi

New Testament = 27 Books

1. Matthew
2. Mark
3. Luke
4. John
5. Acts
6. Romans
7. 1 Corinthians
8. 2 Corinthians
9. Galatians
10. Ephesians
11. Philippians
12. Colossians
13. 1 Thessalonians
14. 2 Thessalonians
15. 1 Timothy
16. 2 Timothy
17. Titus
18. Philemon
19. Hebrews
20. James
21. 1 Peter
22. 2 Peter
23. 1 John
24. 2 John
25. 3 John
26. Jude
27. Revelation

46 + 27 = 73 Books total.

For more information, see the New American Bible: http://www.nccbuscc.org/nab/bible/

With love in Christ.

Answer 2

That is a big question with a big answer.

The Christian Bible comes from what is called the Majority Text. These documents come from the original letters and books of the Bible written by the Old and New Testament writers. These documents are the ones that were used by the Christians who were persecuted by the Roman Catholic Church in the middle ages (also known as the True Church). These documents all agree with one another - the only differences seem to be typos and spelling errors, NOT doctrinal errors. From this majority text, we have the Geneva Bible, the Tyndale Bible, the Coverdale Bible, and today the King James Bible. It is the most accurate translation of the real Scriptures, the Majority Text, in the English language.

The Catholic Bible has its roots in the fourth century A.D. Constantine appointed Origen to consolidate a "state Bible" to go along with his state religion (which was a corrupt form of Christianity, full of doctrinal heresy and pagan traditions). Origen chose gnostic texts that didn't come from the True Church and their accurate copies of Scripture....his texts were full of doctrinal errors and contradictions. Thus the Catholic Bible is also riddled with doctrinal errors and contradictions.

There it is in a nutshell.

Here's a freebie for you. The Catholic Church spent more than a thousand years trying to destroy the real Scriptures used by the true church (those Christians that were burned at the stake and tortured hideously....). Even as late as the 1940s, Bibles were still being burned in Quebec. The Roman Catholic Church hates the real Scriptures because the truth that is plainly spoken in them reveals all the paganism and corruption that the Church hides so carefully in itself.

If you want to know the *real* truth, read the King James Bible and stay away from the catholic bible. It is full of lies and errors. Stay away from modern versions too because the come from the same corrupted text that the catholic bible came from.

Answer 3

You can look in any Bible to see which ones went in. Here's a site of early christian writings, including both the books that went into the new testament and those that didn't make the cut.

http://www.earlychristianwritings.com/

The reasons for leaving some out are numerous. The end reason was that they were judged to be fakes. In some cases the Bishops knew the book was too new to be authentic. In other cases the book taught things that contradicted other books already accepted to be true.

BTW, Catholics are Christians. Catholics and Protestants are two branches of Christianity. The Catholic Bible has a couple more books than the Protestant one (including macabees 1 and 2)

Answer 4

The Apocrypha is not found in the Christian Bible and it includes the Lost Books....

Answer 5

The Deutercanonicals were removed by Luther because they got in his way.

http://home.inreach.com/~bstanley/deuter.htm